front 1 Thirteenth Amendment | back 1 Constitutional amendment prohibiting all forms of slavery and involuntary servitude. Former Confederate states were required to ratify the amendment prior to gaining reentry into the Union. |
front 2 John J. Pershing | back 2 American general who led troops against "Pancho" Villa in 1916. |
front 3 Queen Liliuokalani | back 3 last reigning queen of Hawaii, whose defense of native Hawaiian self-rule led to a revolt by white settlers and her dethronement. |
front 4 Copperheads | back 4 Northern Democrats who obstructed the war effort by attacking Abraham Lincoln, the draft, and, after 1863, emancipation. |
front 5 Susan B. Anthony | back 5 American social reformer who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement |
front 6 Theodore Roosevelt | back 6 26th President of the United States. He was a Rough Rider in the Spanish-American War |
front 7 Hinton R. Helper | back 7 hated both slavery and blacks. Argued that nonslaveholding whites actually suffered most in a slave economy and wrote antislavery tract |
front 8 Harriet B. Stowe | back 8 American abolitionist and author who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
front 9 Lucretia Mott | back 9 Quaker who attended an anti-slavery convention in 1840 and her party of women was not recognized |
front 10 Wade-Davis Bill | back 10 declared that the Reconstruction of the South was a legislative, not executive, matter required that 50 percent of a state’s voters pledge allegiance to the Union and set stronger safeguards for emancipation. |
front 11 Dorothea Dix | back 11 Prison and asylum reformer |
front 12 Crittenden Compromise | back 12 plan proposed to create a constitutional amendment to protect slavery from federal interference in any state where it already existed |
front 13 William R. Hearst | back 13 United States newspaper publisher whose introduction of large headlines and sensational reporting changed American journalism |
front 14 Appomattox Courthouse | back 14 site of the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse and where confederate army surrendered |
front 15 Ford’s Theater | back 15 Location of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination |
front 16 Henry C. Lodge | back 16 Republican senator who disagreed with the Versailles Treaty and crusaded against League of Nations |
front 17 A.E. Burnside | back 17 officer in the United States Army who replaced George B. McClellan |
front 18 Radical Republicans - Civil War Period | back 18 Congressional group that wished to punish the South for its secession from the Union |
front 19 Thomas Edison | back 19 American inventor who created the electric light bulb, the phonograph, the mimeograph, and the moving picture |
front 20 Carpetbaggers | back 20 Northern businessmen and politicians who came to the South after the Civil War to work on Reconstruction |
front 21 Freedmen’s Bureau | back 21 Gave aid to newly emancipated slaves by providing food, clothing, medical care, education, and legal support. |
front 22 Gettysburg Address | back 22 speech given by Abraham Lincoln where he praised the bravery of Union soldiers and framed the war as a means to uphold the values of liberty. |
front 23 Battle of Antietam | back 23 battle in Maryland that ended Lee's first invasion of the North. |
front 24 Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War | back 24 est. by Congress during the Civil War to oversee military affairs |
front 25 Valeriano Weyler | back 25 Spanish general who arrived in Cuba in 1896 to put down the insurrection |